Spellchecking Is Never Enough, # 53

Another example of an old friend (and some of the grammar is dubious too), contributed jointly by Unintended Saucy Humour and Dr Faustus. This is from an academic book which should, of course, have undergone repeated and rigorous checking and proofreading by the chapter's author and the volume's editors (if not by someone at the publishers, since publishers aren't apparently involved in that kind of thing any more):

Source: Teun A. van Dijk, 'Critical Discourse Analysis', in The Handbook of Discourse Analysis, ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen and Heidi E. Hamilton. Malden, MA, & Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, p. 357. Link: Google Books

The checking process is particularly important in this case, since the chapter's author, who is from the Netherlands, is not working in his native tongue.

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